Spatially Temporal Synchrony of the Population Dynamics of the Northern Red-Backed Vole (Myodes rutilus Pall.) in Northern European Russia

The conjugacy of the dynamics of northern red-backed vole ( Myodes rutilus Pall.) populations among nine localities of the Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk oblast, between which the distance varied from 88 to 947 km was analyzed. Asynchronous oscillations were observed between 1965 and 2006. As the geographical distance between the localities increased, spatial synchronization decreased. In the period from 2007 to 2018, there were already synchronous changes in the number of this species throughout the territory. One of the likely factors for changing the spatial synchronicity of population dynamics is climate change.